New CD: Capriccios & Intermezzos: Nada & Brahms

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25-TRACK DOUBLE ALBUM FROM PIANIST NADA

“CAPRICCIOS & INTERMEZZOS: NADA & BRAHMS”

ON THE MEII ENTERPRISES LABEL

MEII Enterprises is proud to announce the release of “Capriccios & Intermezzos: Nada & Brahms,” a 25-track double album, the fourth in a series of albums featuring award-winning Pianist Nada’s recordings of Johannes Brahms (1833-1897) works for solo piano.

Pianist Nada’s core repertoire ranges from Mozart to Prokofiev. In the past few years, however, she has focused her attention on Johannes Brahms solo and concert works.

Nada’s extended study of Brahms’ works led her to feel as if she knows him intimately. She recorded this 25-track double album in the series to give the listener insight into his range of works.

“I chose to call this recording ‘Capriccios & Intermezzos’ to display the wonderful variety and array of colors and moods in his music: passion/reflection, power/sweetness, brilliance/intimacy, craziness/centeredness, organization/wilderness,” says Pianist Nada.

The first and second albums in the series— “Nada in Hamburg with Johannes Brahms” and “Vienna: Brahms & Nada” — explore the depth of poetry in Brahms’ music. The third album “Nada Meets Johannes Brahms” is a portrait of Brahms’ deepest and most adventurous self. All three albums have been critically acclaimed in various domestic and international publications, including Fanfare Magazine and International Piano .

The “Capriccios & Intermezzos” album is available on

Nada’s website, www.pianistnada.com , cdbaby.com, and other digital music web sites including Amazon , Spotify and iTunes .

Click to hear “CAPRICCIOS & INTERMEZZOS: NADA & BRAHMS”

Nada Bio

Originally from Beirut and now a U.S. citizen, Nada Loutfi is an experienced artist who comes from a unique background – having lived through the Lebanese Civil War – and is of Hungarian and Lebanese descent.

At the age of seventeen, after just seven years of studies, she entered the Paris Conservatory and was the first woman from the Middle East to take First Prize in piano. She also earned First Prize in chamber music and, with her trio, went on to study at the Banff Center for the Arts in Alberta, Canada in 1987. From 1989 to 1993 she studied with Gyorgy Sebok and also received coaching from Janos Starker, Josef Gingold and others in the Artist Diploma Program at Indiana University.

Following her American orchestral debut (Beethoven with the Louisville Orchestra, 1997), conductor Lawrence Leighton Smith said, “Ms. Loutfi will be most deserving of every success that will undoubtedly come her way. I have rarely felt so satisfied in a collaboration … She is a major talent.”

Nada’s core repertoire ranges from Mozart to Prokofiev, and in the past few years she has focused her attention on the solo and concert works of Johannes Brahms.

She has performed in prestigious halls worldwide, including the Steinway Hall in New York City, Kilbourn Hall at Eastman School of Music, Severance Hall in Cleveland and at the Salzburg Festival in Austria. In Paris and New York City, she has premiered works by Lebanese composers Bechara El Khoury and Elias Rahbani and recorded pieces by classical/jazz composer Eugene Marlow.

Nada’s most recent recordings explore the depth of poetry in Brahms’ music. These include the first recording on piano of his Organ Chorales, Op. 122 and other rarely-recorded works, alongside familiar pieces such as the Op. 39 Waltzes. Other Brahms CDs are in production on the MEII Enterprises label.

She is also a radio host and performer on her own series, the Classical Hour, on WCHQ- FM radio

Nada has recorded five solo piano albums all of which are on the MEII Enterprises label. Recordings are available for purchase through Nada’s website , cdbaby.com and other digital music web sites including Amazon, Spotify and iTunes.

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